and then at RAMFest in South Africa with Rise Against in March,
The Australian leg began on February 28, 2013, in Perth at the Perth Arena
On 7 February 2013 it was announced that Vijay Mistry from the band Club Smith would be joining the Kaiser Chiefs as their new drummer.
On February 5, 2013, the band entered the studio to start recording the new album.
The band members’ main goal was to reinvent the group’s sound from scratch, creating what Trohman called a “reimagining of the band”, which focuses more on pop. Sessions were not without difficulties, as the band struggled initially to produce new material. Walker had doubts about the band’s volatility, feeling the…
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The record’s lead single, ” My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up) “, was released on February 4, 2013, and peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 , marking the band’s first top twenty single since the group’s 2008 cover of Michael Jackson’s…
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In February 2013, it was announced that ” Up in the Air ” would be the first single from the fourth album. In partnership with NASA , Thirty Seconds to Mars launched the first copy of “Up in the Air” aboard the Dragon spacecraft on SpaceX CRS-2 . The mission…
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Work on the album was still in progress when McKinnon updated fans in February 2013
In February 2013, Bastille confirmed the release of the fourth single to be taken from Bad Blood , ” Pompeii “.
The band released the first single from the album in February 2013.